Anyone within 50 yards of the Tulane baseball locker room on Friday night could hear just how unhappy the team was with Friday’s 3-2 loss to University of Texas San Antonio.

Things were being tossed around in the clubhouse and angry voices sounded behind closed doors.

The frustration level of the program is high. Even the guys who played well on Friday left Turchin Stadium fuming over Friday’s results and the medicore 10-10 season record.

Tulane senior outfielder Brandon Boudreaux was one of them. He finally broke through at the plate on Friday in front of the stadium’s 1,842.

After coming in with a .209 batting average and two RBI’s, Boudreaux doubled the RBI total with one hit in the fourth inning and finished 2-for-3.

“We didn’t come here to Tulane to be a 10-10 club,” Boudreaux said. “We didn’t come here to play .500 baseball. We didn’t come here to go four years without making the post season and that’s not what we’re going to do. I think guys that have been here four years can’t settle in, can’t just say, ‘Oh here we go again.’ The new guys need to realize that these past three years and what’s gone on so far this year, isn’t our program. That’s not us, that’s not us as players, that’s not our coaches, that’s not the support staff, that’s not our school. That’s not anything.”

Green Wave ace Tony Rizzotti (3-2) experienced another night of gutsy pitching only to see his club fall short on supplying supporting runs.

Rizzotti got hit hard in the third inning – he gave up three hits and three runs. UTSA delievered two RBI doubles and one RBI triple in the frame to move to a 3-0 lead.

Rizzotti steadied from there, going eight innings. He allowed nine hits and struck out four in 105 pitches. Of those pitches, 77 were strikes.

“Just real frustrating for us to waste that pitching performance from Tony Rizotti tonight because we didn’t swing the bats with any kind of confident approach whatsoever,” Tulane Coach Rick Jones said.

Tulane’s offense has averaged just 2.4 runs in Rizzotti’s five Friday starts. It hasn’t given Rizzotti much breathing room but Rizzotti was down on himself after the game – not the offense.

“There’s nothing better than a good dogfight in baseball,” Rizzotti said. “The hitters are going to come around, that’s what they do. I have to pitch better next time. I’m not perfect at all. This was one of my worst outings. It’s just how it works sometimes.”

Rizzotti said there wasn’t any one pitch that wasn’t working in the third inning and led to the hard hits, it was all about location.

“I just kind of hit my spots better (after the third),” Rizzotti said. “I did a horrible job of that in the third inning.”

The breakdown of the pivotal frame went like this: UTSA’s Rodney Garza popped a ball up toward first base in foul territory that Sean Potkay couldn’t glove – that resulted in an error. Later in the at-bat, he lined a single to left center field. He moved to second a sacrifice bunt and then was driven in on a Horacio Correa III double. RJ Perucki followed with a RBI double and Mike Warren drilled an RBI triple to left.

When the dust cleared, the Roadrunners had a 3-0 lead and Rizzotti took a visit in the inning from Jones.

Rizzotti stablized, sitting four of the next five batters.

The Green Wave bats livened in the fourth when Tulane mounted a two-run inning.

Blake Crohan kicked things off with a single down the right field line. Andrew Garner walked and then Boudreaux delivered Tulane’s only runs on the game on his hit to left field.

“One bright spot of the night was Brandon Boudreaux looked like himself again,” Jones said. “He’ll be moved back up in the lineup (Saturday).”

Roadrunners starter Michael Kraft went 3 1/3 innings, allowing three hits and the two earned runs. But Jordan Pacheco (4-0) relieved him and held the Green Wave scoreless to earn the win.

“Very frustrating game. It was a winnable game . … I was extremely frustrated with our offensive approach tonight,” Jones said. “We chased way too many balls out side of the zone, it was hard to even explain. Either we weren’t focused enough or talented enough to be able to recognize a breaking ball in the dirt is something you cannot hit. We chased so many of them tonight in RBI situations that we really took ourselves out of it.”

Even the guy with all the RBIs Friday agreed.

“Everybody has to buy in,” Boudreaux said. “We have to do what we say we’re going to do day in and day out that we haven’t been doing. Just have good at-bats with runners in scoring position. We need to have good at-bats in general. It’s baseball; you’re going to get out, you’re going to hit balls hard and not get hits, but just have good at-bats.”

He offered this for Rizzotti, who left the field with an ERA of 0.95:

“He’s a great pitcher, one of the best in the country for a reason,” Boudreaux said. “I can’t say enough about what he did. We kind of spoiled it as an outing for him. It’s tough for him to get a loss in a situation like that especially after he fought back in that one inning and settled in and got (the final out).”